President Bush Announced Reuben Jeffery as Special Advisor for Lower Manhattan Development

President Bush today announced the appointment of Reuben Jeffery III to
the newly created position of Special Advisor for Lower Manhattan
Development. In this capacity, Mr. Jeffery will be primarily
responsible within the White House for coordinating ongoing federal
efforts in support of the recovery and re-development of Lower
Manhattan.

Mr. Jeffery has spent the past eighteen years at Goldman Sachs,
where he has lived and worked in Paris, London and New York and
specialized in the financial services sector. He previously
practiced corporate law in the New York City office of Davis Polk &
Wardwell. Mr. Jeffery received his BA from Yale and JD and
MBA degrees from Stanford.